(Minghui.org) Many Falun Gong practitioners are now exercising their legal right to sue Jiang Zemin for launching the persecution of their spiritual belief and causing them tremendous suffering in the past 16 years.
The Minghui website receives copies of criminal complaints against Jiang from many practitioners every day. In this report, we present a snapshot of some of the practitioners whose copies of lawsuits were received by Minghui on March 3-8, 2016.
These lawsuits are mailed to the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, which are required to process all criminal complaints filed by citizens, as of a recent ruling by the Supreme People's Court.
Hometown: Nong'an County, Jilin ProvinceDate filed: June 2015Key Facts:
Ms. Liu Lu submitted a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin in June 2015 for the death of her younger brother Liu Chengjun, the 12 years of detention suffered by her older sister Liu Shumei, and the four years of forced labor re-education that she personally underwent.
Ms. Liu's younger brother Liu Chengjun was arrested and detained three times before he died in police custody on December 26, 2003. Mr. Liu was first arrested in September 1999 because he wrote a letter to the central government appealing for Falun Gong. He was detained for a total of one year and ten months.
On October 1, 2001, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Police arrested him and tortured him for 22 days until he was in critical condition.
On March 5, 2002, Mr. Liu successfully broadcast programs through the local cable TV system, revealing the facts behind the persecution of Falun Gong. The authorities arrested many Falun Gong practitioners in the city and searched for him. The police finally arrested him on March 23 and sentenced him to 19 years in prison.
In the detention center, the guards tortured Liu Chengjun with the tiger bench method for 52 days. His peritoneum was broken, causing an intestinal hernia.
In the prison that he was then transferred to, the guards beat him every day until his heart and kidneys failed. When he died in the hospital on December 26, 2003, his mother saw his bloodstains all over the floor. His nose, ears and thighs were all bleeding. His back was covered in bruises.
Ms. Liu's older sister Liu Shumei was arrested four times in 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2014, and served (respectively) one, two and seven years of forced labor re-education after the first three arrests. She is currently serving her fourth term in a detention center since her last arrest on July 8, 2014.
Ms. Liu Lu herself was arrested three times between 1999 and 2003, and served a total of four years of forced labor re-education. She was not allowed to sleep at all for 60 hours on end.
After she started a hunger strike to protest the persecution, the guards force-fed her and injured her throat. Her neck was badly swollen and became as thick as her head. For over one month, she could not breathe when lying down. When she resisted the force-feeding, the guards tortured her with the airplane method and shocked her with electric batons.
Ms. Liu's parents were both Falun Gong practitioners. After witnessing the death of their son Liu Chengjun and the detention of both of their daughters, the devastated old couple fell ill. Their health quickly deteriorated and they both died soon afterwards.
Current Situation:Ms. Liu Shumei is still under detention.
The Persecution of Liu ChengjunRemembering Dafa Practitioner Liu ChengjunRemembering My Younger Brother, Liu Chengjun
Details of complaint in Chinese language
Hometown: BeijingDate filed: September 26, 2015
Liu Fengxia, 66, has been arrested at least seven times for practicing Falun Gong. The frequent arrests and harassment by the police has caused her family to live in a state of constant terror. Her husband died from a heart attack in 2003. Her son became mentally ill.
Ms. Liu started to practice Falun Gong in 1997 because she suffered from pelvic cancer, hypertension and cardiac disease. Within one month after she began the practice, all the symptoms were gone. She never visited the hospital again after that. She also followed the principles of Falun Gong to become a better person in daily life and to serve the community.
Soon after the persecution started in 1999, she visited Beijing three times to appeal for Falun Gong. Local police arrested her after she came back and tortured her in an isolated room. They shocked her with electric batons and whipped her with a rubber hose for three hours.
In December 1999, Ms. Liu was taken to a mental hospital along with 67 other Falun Gong practitioners. There they were mentally abused and starved for 48 days. She was taken to brainwashing centers in 2000, 2007 (for 17 days) and 2014 (for 32 days). Police deprived her of sleep so that they could force her into giving up her belief.
She was taken to labor camp twice in 2004 and 2008, respectively. There, she was forced to do more than ten hours of sweatshop labor every day, dealing with toxic materials. She also found unknown drugs in her meals. Another prisoner admitted that she had placed them in her food under instruction from the guards.
Related Reports:Mr. Zhang Jiguo and Ms. Liu Fengxia Still in Custody in Beijing
Details of complaint in Chinese language
Hometown: Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang ProvinceDate filed: September 12, 2015
Ms. Kang Zhimei, 52, has been detained for three years for practicing Falun Gong. Her son was denied college admission because of her belief.
Ms. Kang was arrested at home on March 14, 2005. In the police station, her hands were cuffed to two metal rings hanging from the ceiling. Her feet were in the air. Police kept swinging her and pinching her ribs.
Then she was taken to a detention center. There she was only offered moldy bread and soup with dirt in it as meals. The living space was so narrow that twenty people had to sleep next to each other on their sides. Practitioners were constantly tortured if they refused to do sweatshop labor.
Ms. Kang held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. However, she was beaten and fed unknown drugs. During the two years in the detention center, her weight dropped from 68 kilograms to 40 kilograms.
On Jan. 24, 2007, she was transferred to the Heilongjiang Women's Prison to finish the rest of her prison term until March 13, 2008. In the prison, besides sweatshop labor, Ms. Kang was forced to sit on a small stool for long hours and watch videos slandering Falun Gong. She was deprived of sleep, and was forced to stand for long hours for refusing to give up her belief.
To rescue Ms. Kang, her husband was blackmailed for more than 20,000 yuan. He developed lung disease and diabetes during her three years of detention, partly due to the mental stress.
Ms. Kang's son scored very high on the college entrance exam and was accepted by a very good university. However, after finding out that his mother was jailed for practicing Falun Gong, the university refused to take him. He had to go back to high school to study for another year and retake the exam for next year's application.
Details of complaint in Chinese language
In 1999, Jiang Zemin, as head of the Chinese Communist Party, overrode other Politburo standing committee members and launched the violent suppression of Falun Gong.
The persecution has led to the deaths of many Falun Gong practitioners in the past 16 years. More have been tortured for their belief and even killed for their organs. Jiang Zemin is directly responsible for the inception and continuation of the brutal persecution.
Under his personal direction, the Chinese Communist Party established an extralegal security organ, the “610 Office,” on June 10, 1999. The organization overrides police forces and the judicial system in carrying out Jiang's directive regarding Falun Gong: to ruin their reputations, cut off their financial resources, and destroy them physically.
Chinese law allows for citizens to be plaintiffs in criminal cases, and many practitioners are now exercising that right to file criminal complaints against the former dictator.